The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-23

! county. ENbNeIl Oh JDbiIi measured from Y 70
& feet, and one killed by them last Friday
measured feet, and tipped the beam at 1902
, pounds. Tom shot this monster with n rifle
! and seeing that it was badly wounded waded
into the pond and seized it by one leg to drag
il out, but it made such stout resistance
Willie had to go to his rescue and both OF
them succeeded in landing and finally dis
patching him.
A correspondent at Darien, in a commu-
nication to the MORNING News, says that
the dispatch in the NEWS and another State
paper relative to the escape of prisoners at
that place is understood there to be an effort
10 reflect unfavorably upon the Sheriff, T.
b. Blount He says, however, that the es-
cape was not due TO any negligence on the
| SheijtfS part; that everybody knows it
wasn't, and that, therefore, the arrow aimed
at him missed its mark. The effort appeared
to be to glorify some one who formerly had
charge of the Jail rather than an attempt to
injure the Sheriff.
About four weeks ago l. w Mann, living
near Dawson, missed one of his ROSTERS and
after several days search finally gave up the
! hunt, thinking that Sir Cock had come TO
| the base use Of making bone and sinew for
cuffy The other day Mr. Mann had his
well cleaned out, and on descending into it
the cleaner heard fiuttering and cackling
| in a cave leading out from the side of the
| well, some fifty or sixty feet below the sur
face Upon closer examination he found
the identical cock, alive and we'll and pre-
sumably happy but hungry. The chicken
was taken out and Immediately upon land
ing on terra firma crowed a lusty crow and
began making love to the hens as if nothing
unusual had happened
| The excursion steamer pope Catlin was
libeled at Brunswick Wednesday and seized
! by United States Deputy Marshal for al
legged irregularities on her equipment at her
4.i,N TO NJ. Loo
| man and Jones, the inspectors of steamboats,,
made an examination and found that the
steamer did not have the required numbar
| of life preserverS, floats, etc, and that her
metallic boat was in bad order. She was
also reported for carrying an excess of pas
| sengers, as under her present equipment she
| is only entitled to take 100 people, but in
spite Of that she is said to have taken 2S3.
| The original certificate of the boat justifies
| her in taking 463 people, but the equipments
were not complied with
Judge Fam resentenced William Holman
ltlaSt week to expiate the crime of murder on
the gallows on Thursday, June ., 1887, one
mile from the court house. Holman's de-
Tense entertained the hope that the unfortr-
nate man would be granted q new hearing
| by the Supreme Court, but the effort to
secure it failed. As last resort a petition
is now being circulated and signed request
| ing the Governor to commute HQlman's
death sentence to Imprisonment for life.
The case of Lizzie Holcombe who was inn
i .plicated in the same murder-that of Matilda
4 Gudger, in October last-came up before
4 2the recent term of Superior Court, but the
evidence not being sufficient to convict her
SIyof any serious part in the shocking affair,
slGshe was told to Ego and sin no mOren
i The old General" the Western and At
| lantic locomotive famous as the one stolen
by the Federals during the war; when they
attempted to destroy the backbone of the
Confederacy," has Of late been thoroughly
overhauled and rejuvenated, and is now
pulling one OF the accommodation trains.
Though small, compared with other locomo-
i tives, the General" is a fast traveller. She
recently made quite a remarkable run from
Atlanta to kennesaw, while hauling pas
n senger train No. TO- The train left Atlanta
nearly three-quarters Of an hour behind
Il time and the "Generalp was called upon to
do her best, There were three cars and a
sleeper comprising thestrain, and the way
they rocked and reeled as the ''Generar'
whirled them around the short curves was
I'surprising. The speed at times was great,
\ often reaching a maximum of mile a
minute
j. A. Hornes dry goods store at Griffin
has been closed by the Sheriff The levy
was made upon mortgage H. "a. of S26057
in favor of A. r. MCGOWAN & Co, of Phila-
delphia, and a distress warrant for rent to
the amount of $40 % i'll favor of r. H,
Drake. The stock, which has been CON
stantly depleted and not lately replenished,
at the highest valuation is not thought to
amount to over $500, while the liabilities
are estimated at $4,2O0 including q mort
u gage to S. T. Coleman g. Co., of Macon, for
$4,000 and other Indebtedness
u in which local parties at Griffin
u ore involved for small amount. The
Z mortgage of Coleman is prior to that of
MCGOWAN 81 Co, but will be contested. Mr.
Horne himself places his assets and liabilities
4 at $1,000 each, including in the former his
notes and accounts, and says that every man
sjrhe owes in Griffin shall be paid in full. His
failure he attributes 10 too extensive a credit
5 system and inability to collect the money
g due him for goods sold.
Bill Evers, of East Macon, still has his old
liConfederate uniform and haversaclS and
canteen, and on last Fourth of July be
'came out arrayed in the old dress. Besides,
= he has a real old Joe Brown pike made OF
steel by McElroy, an old Macon black
smith, in the war time The pike is made
: like spear, is fiat, and the blade is about
: three inches wide, coming to point and
81 sharp on either edge. The blade proper is
about ten inches long. There are two
harbs, setting at right angles like the guard
of dirk, and they were both sharpened at
the point and on the edges. There is a fiat
handle some eighteen inches long that was
, | intended to be inserted in a turned wooden
, staff and riveted fast. The staff was painted
red and the blade highly polished, so the
weapon was quite a formidable looking
affair. Bill treasures the old relic very
highly, and says that sometime he is going
TO Atlanta and exhibitit to the aged Senator
from whom it takes its suggestive name
Joe Brown, the old war Governor.
Augusta Nelcs: Everybody in Augusta
who knows Maj. Harry Hammond, will
II sympathize with him in his serious loss by
! fire Thursday morning. Mr.. jerome Faii
} came up from Beech Island this morning
and reported the incident He says that al
2 O'Clock Thursday morning fire was dis
covered in the barn and stables on Mai
Hammond's place at "Red Cliff" but that
it was too far advanced for aid or work &c
avail anything The immense barn anC
stables were destroyed together with sever
or eight horses and one mule. The houses
: were very large, and the animals lost were
very valuable. Mr. Fair does not know the
amount Of insurance, or whether
there was any insurance. The
origin of the fire is unknown and
the amount of loss cannot be estimated a,
yet. The fire extended rs far as the resi-
dence at one time and the roof was in d
blaze, but this was eStiuguished by tho eff
| forts of thp family and Those Gathered by